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Related: About this forumWife Of Key Legislator Behind NC’s Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian' Race
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/02/475141/brunstetter-caucasian/The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senator and supporter of Amendment 1 a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in the state claimed earlier this week that her husband advocated for the measure to protect the Caucasian race.
Jodie Brunstetter, the wife of North Carolina state Sen. Peter Brunstetter, made the remarks outside the early voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown Winston-Salem while speaking to voters, Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist, reports. Nance heard about Jodies comments from an African-American poll worker who allegedly overheard Brunstetter say, The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce.
Asked to clarify her statement, Brunstetter reluctantly confirmed that she did in fact use the phrase Caucasian:
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Wife Of Key Legislator Behind NC’s Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian' Race (Original Post)
Scuba
May 2012
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MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)1. So, then, only let non-white homosexuals get married?
Force the white ones to procreate at gunpoint.
The older I get, the more amazed I am at the number of representatives at the state and federal level who are either nuts or idiots or both.
rurallib
(62,478 posts)3. Gosh what a great poster that will make.